Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 – A Time for Everything
- “The Gift of Time”
- The teacher of Ecclesiastes shares the polarization of life’s experiences.
- Life changes and time is an agent of change. Nothing stays the same except God and even our understanding of Him changes over time.
- Change is good; change is God.
- If our life’s aim is a moment in time then we will be very disappointed and ultimately ruined. If our life’s aim however is to grasp time as God’s gift then we may see much fruit in our lives.
- Time allows our minds to change and develop.
- Winston Churchill said “if you are young and not a liberal you have no heart; if you are old and not a conservative you have no brain”
- Time allows us to have second chances.
- Time allows us to invest our lives in different ways. I heard someone once say that when we are young our wisdom is like bullets but if we allow time to mature us then when we are old our wisdom can be like missiles. Bullets are spat out quickly and multiple times; missiles are launched far less often but have a much bigger effect when they reach their point of impact.
- It has also been said that some people live the first half of their lives better than the second and visa versa.
- David and Solomon had good first half’s and yet poor second halves; Moses and Matthew did better in the second half of their lives. Caleb did well in b oth – study him.
- Time it seems is an opportunity.
- I pray that my life is not wasted trying to get to a particular moment in time and holding onto it. I pray instead it will be a pursuing of the gift of time. A recognition of the goodness of change and the understanding that it brings.
- Bring on change!
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